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Recent Examples of outwardly
He was reduced to a nominal head with no real authority, though courtly protocols were maintained; British officials outwardly treated him with respect and courtesy while gradually stripping him of the last remnants of symbolic power.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026
Nothing Roberts does, the first baseman said, is to be outwardly questioned.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Wogan also said police reported there were no outwardly apparent signs of trauma.
—Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
And that thinking transforms outwardly into defiant behavior.
—Staff Author, Parents, 9 Mar. 2026
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026
Nothing Roberts does, the first baseman said, is to be outwardly questioned.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Wogan also said police reported there were no outwardly apparent signs of trauma.
—Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
And that thinking transforms outwardly into defiant behavior.
—Staff Author, Parents, 9 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outwardly
Adverb
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What has your style been in communicating externally but also, really, internally?—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
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An awkward summer internally and externally in FoCo went south quickly, and Norvell wound up being fired in mid-October after a 2-5 start.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Hyaluronic acid and collagen help visibly hydrate and plump skin, smoothing the appearance of lines, crow’s feet and crepey texture for a flawless makeup look.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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And unlike institutions whose credibility has become a casualty of the current moment, most business leaders have earned public respect through careers visibly built on performance instead of patronage.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
6 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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University City is filled with yellow rezoning signs and cleared land seemingly on every corner.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Apr. 2026
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Professionals in Mexico’s arts community had protested the initially vague plans to export the collection of 160 artworks, seemingly for an indefinite period of time, to the Santander bank’s new cultural center, the Faro Santander.—
Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
6 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Even at an early age, apparently, the patient had a few small, smooth, normal patches of skin; some had stayed the same size, but others had grown and spread.—
Jerome Groopman,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Granville Suite, once military reception rooms, is named after Christine Granville, rumored lover of Ian Fleming and apparently Churchill’s favorite spy.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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But the big truck is evidently now emblematic of America and must be accepted by our trading partners, regardless of whether there’s customer demand.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2026
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Mitchell’s performance thus far at both Rockingham and Daytona, combined with his overall lack of racing experience, was evidently enough for NASCAR officials to deny him entry into the O’Reilly Series race at Talladega.—
Jordan Bianchi,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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In January 1979, the shah left Iran, ostensibly to seek cancer treatment.—
Jeffrey Fields,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2026
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Which means your job is ostensibly to try to make people better bosses, right?—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
3 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Plenty of developments are alarming right now, even as America is supposedly becoming great again.—
Beverly Gage,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2026
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The president himself chose not to name a new full-time national security adviser after removing Mike Waltz, who had included a journalist in supposedly secure communications regarding military action.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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From the perspective of a world of increasingly unimaginable maldistribution of resources, cascading ecological collapse, a genocide cheered on by a putatively liberal order, both are barbarisms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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